There has been an increase in the number of children groomed, deceived or extorted into producing a sexual image or video of themselves while being guided and manipulated by an online predator.
Forty-four percent of child sexual maltreatment material eliminated from the web during the first half of 2020 was created by children. Recordings and pictures in which children have been tricked into recording their own maltreatment presently make up almost half of all the material eliminated from the web.
Some of these materials were produced with webcams, at times in the children’s room, and were later shared on the web. The overwhelming majority of the materials which were self-produced were created by girls aged 11-13.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is responsible for finding and removing images and videos of children suffering sexual abuse from the internet in the UK. Susie Hargreaves OBE, is the CEO of the IWF, and urges guardians to have frank conversations with their children about the web and online predators. She added: “Sadly, no child is ever entirely safe from being targeted by predators who are on the lookout for children to manipulate. If a child is unsupervised and has a device with a camera and the internet, there is a possibility that, very quickly, they could be groomed and coerced.”
Images and videos of online child sexual abuse can be reported anonymously at https://report.iwf.org.uk/en
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